World Watch Monitor An Iranian Christian sentenced to 10 years in prison has been released after three months. Mostafa Bordbar, 27, was released Nov. 3 from Tehran’s Evin Prison after charges of participating in an “anti-security organization” and “gathering with intent to commit crimes against Iranian national security” were overturned. Bordbar was arrested in December…
By Heather Clark Fears are mounting following reports that an American pastor who is imprisoned in Iran has been transferred to an even more dangerous prison in the country. As previously reported, Pastor Saeed Abedini of Idaho, a former Muslim, left Iran in 2005 and moved to the United States with his wife and children…
By Grace Thornton BOISE, Idaho (BP) — “Be patient and endure.” From an Iranian jail cell, Saeed Abedini penned those words in a letter to his daughter Rebekka for her seventh birthday this year. But as the American pastor marked a year in Iran’s brutal Evin Prison with no hint of a coming release, “enduring”…
CBNNews.com The wife of the American pastor imprisoned in Iran for his Christian faith says her husband remains bold for Jesus Christ in prison. Saeed Abedini’s wife, Naghmeh, recently spoke to students at Liberty University about her family’s plight. She said in spite of being tortured and asked to deny his faith in Christ and…
By Franklin Graham In Ward 350 of Iran’s notorious Evin Prison, American pastor Saeed Abedini is incarcerated with 30-40 other prisoners, twice the legal limit for this section of the prison. The authorities arrested Saeed while he was working in Iran, with permission from the government, to help build an orphanage for children. According to…
By Heather Clark TEHRAN – An appeals court in Iran has rejected an appeal on behalf of an American pastor incarcerated in one of the most notorious prisons in the country, and has refused to reduce his sentence despite growing international pressure. The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), which has been fighting for…
By Matthew Clark The Iranian family of American pastor Saeed Abedini was once again able to visit him in Evin Prison in Iran. Despite previous threats from Iranian authorities that they would cut off Pastor Saeed’s visitation privileges, he was able to spend some brief time with his family on Monday. Unfortunately, we have learned…
By Lisa Daftari The wife of the Iranian-American pastor held in Iran, along with U.S. attorneys representing the family, have traveled to Geneva and will present his case to the United Nations Human Rights Council Monday, urging the organization to push harder for the pastor’s immediate release. Saeed Abedini, the 33-year-old Idaho resident serving an…